Vol 3 comprises letters written by Sri Aurobindo on the experiences and realisations that may occur in the practice of the Integral Yoga.
Integral Yoga
Vol 3 comprises letters written by Sri Aurobindo on the experiences and realisations that may occur in the practice of the Integral Yoga. Four volumes of letters on the integral yoga, other spiritual paths, the problems of spiritual life, and related subjects. In these letters, Sri Aurobindo explains the foundations of his integral yoga, its fundamentals, its characteristic experiences and realisations, and its method of practice. He also discusses other spiritual paths and the difficulties of spiritual life. Related subjects include the place of human relationships in yoga; sadhana through meditation, work and devotion; reason, science, religion, morality, idealism and yoga; spiritual and occult knowledge; occult forces, beings and powers; destiny, karma, rebirth and survival. Sri Aurobindo wrote most of these letters in the 1930s to disciples living in his ashram. A considerable number of them are being published for the first time.
THEME/S
The cross is the sign of the triple being, transcendent, universal and individual.
The cross indicates the triple Divine (transcendent, universal, individual)—the shield means protection.
The crown is the sign of fulfilment (here in the intuitive consciousness) and the going up means an ascent to higher planes.
The crown indicates the higher consciousness in its static condition, the wheel its dynamic action. The red light is the Power sent down to change the physical.
The diamond is the symbol of the Mother's light and energy—the diamond light is that of her consciousness at its most intense.
Diamonds may indicate the Mother's Light at its intensest, for that is diamond white light.
The diamond in your heart was a formation of the light of Mother's consciousness there,—for the Mother's light is of a white and at its most intense of a diamond radiance. The light
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is a sign of the Mother's presence in your heart and that is what you saw once and felt for a moment.
It [a pearl] may be a representation of the "bindu", which is a symbol of the infinite in the exceedingly small, the individual point which is yet the Universal.
The flute is the symbol of a call—usually the spiritual call.
The flute is the call of the Divine.
The flute is the call of the Divine which descends into you from above and awakes the psychic yearning (the tears) and ends by bringing a vast peace and shows to you the clear sky of the higher consciousness in which there are the Truth-formations (golden stars) some of which begin to descend in a rain upon the physical consciousness (the earth).
The conch is often the symbol of call or aspiration.
The conch is the symbol of the spiritual call.
The conch is the call to realisation.
The conch is perhaps the proclamation of victory.
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The lotus is the opened consciousness—the conchshell is the call to victory.
Bells heard are usually a sign of progress in sadhana, progress to come.
Harmony.
The wheel is the sign of an action of Force (whatever force may be indicated by the nature of the symbol) and as it was surging upwards it must be the fire of aspiration rising from the vital (navel centre) to the Higher Consciousness above.
A revolving disc means a force in action on the nature. The whitish blue light is known as Krishna's light, also as Sri Aurobindo's light. White is the Mother's. Perhaps here it is a combination.
The [Sudarshan] Chakra symbolises the action of Sri Krishna's force.
The chakra is the energy at work and it brings the first opening of the consciousness in the gross physical plane, i.e. of the mental physical, psychic physical, vital physical and the material.
Yes, the circular movement and the Chakra are always signs of energy in action, generally creative action.
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The bow is a symbol of the force sent out to reach its mark.
The arrow is the symbol of the Force which goes to its aim. Gold = the Truth, Yellow = the mind, Green = the vital energy. The arrow of the spiritual Truth using the mind and the vital energy.
Is it a key you saw?1 If so the meaning is clear; it is the key to the divine realisation; the Mother is the key because it is her light (white is her colour) that enables us to open the gate of realisation.
The book indicates some kind of knowledge.
The mirror between the eyebrows indicates that something in the inner mind has become able to reflect the Truth from above (golden light)—a square is a symbol of the truth beyond the mind as a triangle is the symbol of mind, life, body.
The incense stick is the symbol of self-consecration.
Tobacco is associated with tamas and incense sticks with adoration.
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The gramophone is obviously symbolic of the mechanical mind.
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